In The Shadow Of Violence

Author : Douglass C. North,John Joseph Wallis,Steven B. Webb,Barry R. Weingast
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139560634

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In the Shadow of Violence by Douglass C. North,John Joseph Wallis,Steven B. Webb,Barry R. Weingast Pdf

This book applies the conceptual framework of Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis and Barry R. Weingast's Violence and Social Orders (Cambridge University Press, 2009) to nine developing countries. The cases show how political control of economic privileges is used to limit violence and coordinate coalitions of powerful organizations. Rather than castigating politicians and elites as simply corrupt, the case studies illustrate why development is so difficult to achieve in societies where the role of economic organizations is manipulated to provide political balance and stability. The volume develops the idea of limited-access social order as a dynamic social system in which violence is constantly a threat and political and economic outcomes result from the need to control violence rather than promoting economic growth or political rights.

Author : Klaus Schlichte
Publisher : Campus Verlag
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783593388175

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In the Shadow of Violence by Klaus Schlichte Pdf

An exploration of the techniques and strategies of successful non-state armed forces.

Author : Eddie Bruce-Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317233275

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Race in the Shadow of Law by Eddie Bruce-Jones Pdf

Race in the Shadow of Law offers a critical legal analysis of European responses to institutional racism. It draws connections between contemporary legal knowledge practices and colonial systems of thought, arguing that many people of colour experience the law as a part of a racial problem, rather than a solution, to racial injustice. Based on a critical legal ethnography of anti-racism work in Europe, and with an emphasis on the German context, the book positions Black and anti-racist perspectives at the centre, rather than the margins, of critically thinking through the intersection of race and law. Combining this ethnography with comparative legal analysis, discourse analysis and critical race theory, the book develops a critical discussion of the European legal frameworks aimed at regulating racism, and particularly institutional racism, in policy and policing. In linking this critique to the transformative potential of social movements, however, it goes on to examine the strategic and creative possibility of disrupting conventional modes of engaging, and resisting, law.

Author : Carolyn Nordstrom
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520239776

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Shadows of War by Carolyn Nordstrom Pdf

Annotation This book captures the human face of the frontlines, revealing both the visible and the hidden realities of contemporary war, power, and international profiteering in the 21st century.

Author : Jochen Böhler,Ota Konrád,Rudolf Kučera
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781805393887

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In the Shadow of the Great War by Jochen Böhler,Ota Konrád,Rudolf Kučera Pdf

Whether victorious or not, Central European states faced fundamental challenges after the First World War as they struggled to contain ongoing violence and forge peaceful societies. This collection explores the various forms of violence these nations confronted during this period, which effectively transformed the region into a laboratory for state-building. Employing a bottom-up approach to understanding everyday life, these studies trace the contours of individual and mass violence in the interwar era while illuminating their effects upon politics, intellectual developments, and the arts.

Author : Médecins sans frontières (Association)
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0801489113

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In the Shadow of 'just Wars' by Médecins sans frontières (Association) Pdf

Essays written by scholars, journalists and humanitarian relief workers look at humanitarian crises of the past five years for their successes and failures, and suggest that humanitarian action has often failed to live up to its ideals. These essays expose the shortcomings of the various humanitarian organizations, particularly the U.N., and illuminate the complex moral and political debate that surrounds even the most basic relief operations.

Author : Fabian Klose
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812244953

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Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence by Fabian Klose Pdf

Based on previously inaccessible material from international archives, Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence examines the relationship between emerging human rights concepts after 1945 and repressive British and French actions against anticolonial movements in Africa.

Author : Jochen Böhler,Ota Konrád,Rudolf Kučera
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789209402

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In the Shadow of the Great War by Jochen Böhler,Ota Konrád,Rudolf Kučera Pdf

Whether victorious or not, Central European states faced fundamental challenges after the First World War as they struggled to contain ongoing violence and forge peaceful societies. This collection explores the various forms of violence these nations confronted during this period, which effectively transformed the region into a laboratory for state-building. Employing a bottom-up approach to understanding everyday life, these studies trace the contours of individual and mass violence in the interwar era while illuminating their effects upon politics, intellectual developments, and the arts.

Author : Jeremy Slack,Daniel E. Martínez,Scott Whiteford
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780816535590

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The Shadow of the Wall by Jeremy Slack,Daniel E. Martínez,Scott Whiteford Pdf

Thanks to hundreds of interviews with Mexican deportees, this book puts a real face on discussions of immigration and border policies--Provided by publisher.

Author : Harris, Alessandra
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798888660010

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In the Shadow of Freedom by Harris, Alessandra Pdf

Author : Niall Heffernan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476664668

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In the Shadow of the Bomb by Niall Heffernan Pdf

Detective McNulty applies bite marks to a deceased man's body with a set of dentures in The Wire, illustrating how officialdom deals in falsehood. Dr. Strangelove lovingly describes the "doomsday machine" as being free from "human meddling," while it destroys the world, highlighting the absurdity of placing systems above any moral considerations. In Crash, Ballard survives a car accident only to be cared for by a paternal technology that tends only to his physical needs--a life of technical certitude bereft of beauty. The Cold War, with its promise of imminent and purposeless doom, profoundly shaped the post-modern world in ways that are not yet appreciated. This study examines the Cold War zeitgeist and its aftermath as shown in fiction, film and television.

Author : Anson Rabinbach
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520207440

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In the Shadow of Catastrophe by Anson Rabinbach Pdf

"The quality of Rabinbach's intellectual history and his ability to write about highly complex texts in an accessible way are unassailable. His conviction that this German tradition of thought still exerts a strong intellectual and even political influence today makes In the Shadow of Catastrophe a direct and powerful intervention in current debates. This book is a gem!"--Andreas Huyssen, author of Twilight Memories

Author : Rukmini Barua
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108838115

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In the Shadow of the Mill by Rukmini Barua Pdf

Presents a historical ethnography of two workers' neighbourhoods in Ahmedabad, a city in Western India.

Author : Jennifer Spinks,Charles Zika
Publisher : Springer
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137442710

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Disaster, Death and the Emotions in the Shadow of the Apocalypse, 1400–1700 by Jennifer Spinks,Charles Zika Pdf

In late medieval and early modern Europe, textual and visual records of disaster and mass death allow us to encounter the intense emotions generated through the religious, providential and apocalyptic frameworks that provided these events with meaning. This collection brings together historians, art historians, and literary specialists in a cross-disciplinary collection shaped by new developments in the history of emotions. It offers a rich range of analytical frameworks and case studies, from the emotional language of divine providence to individual and communal experiences of disaster. Geographically wide-ranging, the collection also analyses many different sorts of media: from letters and diaries to broadsheets and paintings. Through these and other historical records, the contributors examine how communities and individuals experienced, responded to, recorded and managed the emotional dynamics and trauma created by dramatic events like massacres, floods, fires, earthquakes and plagues.

Author : Rukmini Barua
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009032407

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In the Shadow of the Mill by Rukmini Barua Pdf

This book traces the socio–spatial transformation of Ahmedabad's worker neighbourhoods over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries - during which the city witnessed dramatic and disturbing transformations. It follows the multiple histories of Ahmedabad's labour landscapes from the times when the city acquired prominence as an important site of Gandhian political activity and as a key centre of the textile industry, through the decades of industrial collapse and periods of sectarian violence in the recent years. Taking the working-class neighbourhood as a scale of social practice, the question of urban change is examined along two axes of investigation: the transformation of local political configurations and forms of political mediation and the shifts in the social geography of the neighbourhood as reflected in the changing regimes of property.